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This GURPS Update is, dated, to say the least, looks like 3rd Edition maybe? I never did wind up playing even one game of GURPS though I liked the modular and very open structure of the game.

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Well, this went about as well as it really could have been expected to, considering 5 people at the table, with 3 of them being around mid-teens.

Run a game of Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu for Halloween 2008 for a 40-something friend, his  son, nephew, son’s two friends and a cousin of mine and his girlfriend? Sure, no problem. I even beat the rush by cramming for almost a full twenty minutes, trying to remember all the rules to this system I haven’t played in years, and ran even less recently (and only ran a couple of times in total).

And let’s see… I’ll take Michael LaBossiere’s free “The Black Stone” CoC adventure, and combine it with “Lanier House”, a very brief haunted house style drop-in from first edition Chill.

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Twilight: 2000 - Although slightly older friends of mine continue to sing the praises of T2K, I only got to play in one brief scenario, in which we mistakenly attacked the convoy we were supposed to meet up with, ending the game. And leading up to that, we had to keep track of how many MRE’s and cans of water we were carrying on our convoy, and how much everything weighed. It didn’t strike me as a game I would want to try twice.

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For those of you that enjoy the new 2nd edition of the Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing game, Up With Role-Playing Games has a few downloads you might find useful: a character sheet with Call of Cthulhu style skill listings, Bruisers and Bonebreakers, a detailed and expanded rules plugin for wrestling and grappling, a town profile record sheet and a couple of scenarios.

Also available for players of Robin D. Laws’ and Atlas Games’ Feng Shui cinematic action rpg, a quick reference sheet for damage, difficulty and some other odds and ends, and a character sheet with skill listings.

Besides these, there are also a few other miscellaneous items on our Downloads page - just click to it!

Besides the former RPGHost site’s makeover and better designed sequence of features, such as Articles, Forums, etc., they have a Videos page. I like the John Madden as substitute DM one. =)

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